MICHAEL REEVE is Kennedy Professor of Latin Emeritus at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge Dr NEIL WRIGHT is a Senior Language Teaching Officer at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. A comprehensive introduction discusses the status of variant versions, the shape of the main tradition, and many questions of editorial principle critical notes analyse some problems raised by the transmitted text and there is a full index of names. This new text, for which 14 manuscripts have been collated in full, rests on a survey of the entire tradition it is accompanied by a facing English translation, prepared especially for this volume. Following the city’s fall, the son of Troy’s King Priam escapes to Italy, where he establishes his own kingdom. Geoffrey’s imaginative history links Britain to the destruction of Troy. Yet no critical edition of the main version has appeared since 1929. The History of the Kings of Britian, written in 1136, traces Britain’s origins, beginning in 1200 BC and continuing on into Arthur’s time in the 6th century AD. Text and translation of key Arthurian text - a major source for scholars.Written in the 1130s, Geoffrey's imaginative history of the Britons from Brutus to Cadwallader, the first work to recount the woes of Lear and the glittering career of Arthur, rapidly became a bestseller in the British Isles and Francophone Europe, with over 200 manuscripts surviving. The History of the Kings of Britain : an Edition and Translation of De Gestis Britonum (Historia. A continuación, le mostramos una lista de copias similares. Lamentablemente este ejemplar en específico ya no está disponible.
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